That level of expectation that I’m going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church
ALAN GREENI think what we’re really bad at doing is recognising that it is possible to have lost of different views within the church.
More Alan Green Quotes
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Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life.
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I’ve bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p.
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This will be their 19th consecutive game without a win unless they can get an equaliser.
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It was the game that put the Everton ship back on the road.
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Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes?
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I grew up in the church, with traditional hymns, but at the same time I was beginning to listen to pop music, the mid-60s.
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But we’ve got all the language wrong and made this divide between secularism and spirituality, whereas instead it’s about being human.
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The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice.
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John Arne Riise was deservedly blown up for that foul
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I don’t know where this Arctic wind has come from but it’s freezing!
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They care about their club, and that’s why they always have something good to say, even when it is negative
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The disciples had arguments with Jesus! It is about listening to one another, and respecting one another with those differences.
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It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.
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The Beatles, which had just as much influence on me as those hymns did.
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Well, he had two stabs at the cherry
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I’ve never really separated out the spiritual and the secular.
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As the 20th Century developed, not surprisingly people left the church and I can see the church’s role in losing people.
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Tugay is writhing around all over the place as if he were dead
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Phil Dowd checks his whistle and blows his watch.
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And that’s not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they’ll go to hell.
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A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence
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Here’s Brian Flynn. His official height is five feet five and he doesn’t look much taller than that
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In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.
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You don’t score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
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As a parish priest of the Church Of England.
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People do it differently in different cultures because they have different interpretations, that’s how it should be.
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